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After launching to invest in fire tech, Convective is broadening its mandate to disaster resilience. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Google on Tuesday unveiled Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent designed to work around the clock — drafting emails, assembling documents, monitoring inboxes, and eventually making purchases — even when a user’s laptop is closed and their phone is locked. The announcement, made at Google I/O 2026, is the company’s most ambitious attempt yet to…

A lens the size of a thumbnail — and the South Korean startup that makes it — could become the optical backbone of the AI glasses era. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

As artificial intelligence agents become more powerful, agentic AI governance becomes increasingly important – and yet, today’s governance solutions struggle to keep AI agents from going off the rails. In my last article in this series, I discussed the state of the art for keeping agents on the rails: multiple diverse adversarial validators with multilayer…

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…

A code migration agent finishes its run, and the pipeline looks green. But several pieces were never compiled — and it took days to catch. That’s not a model failure; that’s an agent deciding it was done before it actually was. Many enterprises are now seeing that production AI agent pipelines fail not because of…

After achieving $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, the defense tech startup has raised another massive round, led by Thrive and a16z, it says. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Coco Robotics has made more than 500,000 deliveries with its zero-emissions robots since they hit the streets in 2020. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Every year, donors contribute billions of dollars to charities, yet the donation process still feels outdated and cumbersome. Founders Dan Eblagon and Ron Levy believe there is an easier way to donate, leading to the creation of Bono, a platform designed to facilitate a more modern and streamlined approach to giving.  The platform (named after…